Beach House is Victoria Legrand and Alex
Scally. We have been a band for over a decade living and working in Baltimore,
MD. Depression Cherry is our 5th
full-length record and was recorded at Studio in the Country in
Bogalusa, Louisiana from November ’14 through January ’15. This time period
crossed the anniversaries of both John Lennon’s and Roy Orbison’s death.

In general, this record shows a return to
simplicity, with songs structured around a melody and a few instruments, with
live drums playing a far lesser role. With the growing success of Teen Dream and Bloom, the larger stages and bigger rooms naturally drove us
towards a louder, more aggressive place; a place farther from our natural
tendencies. Here, we continue to let ourselves evolve while fully ignoring the
commercial context in which we exist.

Here are a few quotes that we feel relate to
the feeling and themes of this record:

— “I’ll never be able to be here again. As
the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I
haven’t a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are
people I have yet to meet, others I’ll never see again. People who are gone
before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we
exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the
flowing river before my eyes.” - from
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

— “We inhabit a world in which the future
promises endless possibilities and the past lies irretrievably behind us.
The arrow of time… is the medium of creativity in terms of which life can
be understood.” - from The Arrow of
Time by Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield

— “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the
worth of things.” - from Parerga and Paralipomena by
Arthur Schopenhauer

— “Hark, now hear the sailors cry, feel
the air and see the sky, let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic……

….when the fog horn blows, i want to hear it, i
don’t have to fear it” - from
“Into the Mystic” by Van Morrison

Here is the track listing with selected lyrics.

1. Levitation – “The branches of the trees,
they will hang lower now, you will grow too quick, then you will get over it”

2. Sparks - “It’s a gift, taken from the lips,
you live again”

3. Space Song - “What makes this fragile world
go ‘round, were you ever lost, was she ever found?”

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Beach House is Victoria Legrand and Alex
Scally. We have been a band for over a decade living and working in Baltimore,
MD. Depression Cherry is our 5th
full-length record and was recorded at Studio in the Country in
Bogalusa, Louisiana from November ’14 through January ’15. This time period
crossed the anniversaries of both John Lennon’s and Roy Orbison’s death.

In general, this record shows a return to
simplicity, with songs structured around a melody and a few instruments, with
live drums playing a far lesser role. With the growing success of Teen Dream and Bloom, the larger stages and bigger rooms naturally drove us
towards a louder, more aggressive place; a place farther from our natural
tendencies. Here, we continue to let ourselves evolve while fully ignoring the
commercial context in which we exist.

Here are a few quotes that we feel relate to
the feeling and themes of this record:

— “I’ll never be able to be here again. As
the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I
haven’t a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are
people I have yet to meet, others I’ll never see again. People who are gone
before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we
exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the
flowing river before my eyes.” - from
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

— “We inhabit a world in which the future
promises endless possibilities and the past lies irretrievably behind us.
The arrow of time… is the medium of creativity in terms of which life can
be understood.” - from The Arrow of
Time by Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield

— “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the
worth of things.” - from Parerga and Paralipomena by
Arthur Schopenhauer

— “Hark, now hear the sailors cry, feel
the air and see the sky, let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic……

….when the fog horn blows, i want to hear it, i
don’t have to fear it” - from
“Into the Mystic” by Van Morrison

Here is the track listing with selected lyrics.

1. Levitation – “The branches of the trees,
they will hang lower now, you will grow too quick, then you will get over it”

2. Sparks - “It’s a gift, taken from the lips,
you live again”

3. Space Song - “What makes this fragile world
go ‘round, were you ever lost, was she ever found?”

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